The Island of Seven Cities: Where the Chinese Settles and When They Discovered America
by Chiasson, Paul
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine Condition/Fine Dustjacket
- ISBN 10
- 031336186X
- ISBN 13
- 9780313361869
- Seller
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About This Item
This book presents tangible proof that explorers from China both reached and settled in North America well before Columbus.
Synopsis
Paul Chiasson is a Yale-educated architect whose expertise is the history and theory of religious architecture. He was born on Cape Breton Island and is a direct descendent of the Acadians who were among the first European settlers in the New World. He has taught at Yale, at the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. and at the University of Toronto. Chiasson’s discovery of the remains of an ancient Chinese settlement on Cape Breton Island is a direct result of his ancestral interest in the island’s history and of his unique ability to understand the unusual architectural forms that the ruins represented – remains that had been previously misunderstood or overlooked. From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- High Desert Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 350
- Title
- The Island of Seven Cities
- Author
- Chiasson, Paul
- Illustrator
- Illustrated with black & white illustrations
- Format/Binding
- Bound in beige cloth with gold lettering on the spine
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fine Dustjacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 031336186X
- ISBN 13
- 9780313361869
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press; Publisher
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006
- Pages
- 376 pages
- Size
- 6in x 9in
- Keywords
- China america
- Bookseller catalogs
- Exploration and Travel; World History;
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